Wiehann Mentz - Strength in Purpose

🧥 EURO JACKETS IS MÔRE BY DIE VALLEIPARTEI! 🎉

Kom kuier saam by die Valleipartei en maak seker jy kom loer in by Euro Jackets!

❄️ Winter is nog nie heeltemal klaar met ons nie — so kom kry jou winterbaadjies en maak seker jy en die familie is reg vir die koue dae.

📅 29 Augustus
⏰ Vanaf 08:00 tot dit klaar is!
📍 Valleisig Gemeente – 758 Tipperary Way, Faerie Glen

Daar gaan kos, musiek, kuns, handwerk en hope pret vir die hele gesin wees.

Sien julle môre! 🐑🧥

🧥 EURO JACKETS WILL BE AT THE VALLEIPARTEI TOMORROW! 🎉

Come and join the fun at the Valleipartei and be sure to stop by Euro Jackets!

❄️ Winter isn’t quite done with us yet — so come find your winter jackets and get the whole family ready for those chilly days.

📅 29 August
⏰ From 08:00 until it’s all over!
📍 Valleisig Gemeente – 758 Tipperary Way, Faerie Glen

Expect food, music, arts & crafts and loads of family fun.

See you there! 🐑🧥

OUR ALMIGHTY FATHER GOD IS SPIRIT.

Through the reconciliation of the cross and Jesus Christ, the Son of God, we are born again and restored to fellowship with our Father. Our spirit and God’s Spirit become one.

But God’s ways are not our old ways.

Repentance is essential if the fullness of Christ and the power of God are to flow through us. We must let go of what we think we know and allow God to heal the places where we have been hurt, deceived and shaped by this broken world.

That is not who you are.

You were created to carry the name of God in your spirit, heart, soul, mind and physical body.

As God makes you whole and teaches you to receive His love, you become able to love your neighbour as He loves you—and as you love yourself.

“God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”— John 4:24

RESTORATION

Restoration is not about becoming someone new.
It is the unveiling of who you have always been in Christ.

The journey of restoration is not about striving harder, performing better, or earning God’s acceptance. It is about awakening to the reality of Christ in you.

As the lies fall away, the truth remains.
As fear loses its grip, sonship becomes visible.
As the old mindsets are renewed, the Christ within is revealed.

“Christ in you, the hope of glory.” – Colossians 1:27

The goal of restoration is not self-improvement.

The goal is Christ-expression.

As our minds are renewed and our identity becomes clear, Christ becomes increasingly visible through our lives.

His compassion.
His wisdom.
His peace.
His joy.
His love.

The New Generation is not called to imitate Christ from a distance.

It is called to reveal the Christ who already lives within.

This is the greatest effect of recovery.

Christ expressed through humanity.

Fear survives where uncertainty remains.

But restoration reveals something powerful:

The Father has never withdrawn His affection.
The Father has never abandoned His creation.
The Father has never changed His heart toward humanity.

As this reality settles within us, fear begins to lose its voice.

The New Generation is not called to be controlled by fear.

It is called to reveal the confidence that comes from union with God.

Recovery creates people who live from love rather than survival.

Confusion about purpose often begins with confusion about identity.

Jesus never chased purpose.

He lived from relationship.

Purpose flowed naturally from knowing the Father.

The same is true for us.

The restored life does not ask,
“What must I do to matter?”

It begins to discover,
“Who am I, and what is Christ expressing through me?”

Purpose is the natural fruit of identity.

One of the greatest effects of restoration is rest.

The moment we realise that our value does not come from performance, we stop exhausting ourselves trying to earn what has already been given.

Rest is not inactivity.

Rest is confidence.

Confidence that the Father is present.
Confidence that Christ is our life.
Confidence that we are held by a love greater than our circumstances.

The recovered believer works from acceptance, not for acceptance.

Restoration is not merely the restoration of what was lost.

Restoration awakens us to what has always been true in the Father’s heart.

When identity is restored:
Fear gives way to confidence.�Striving gives way to rest.�Performance gives way to relationship.
The effect of restoration is freedom.
Not freedom because God finally accepts us, but freedom because we awaken to the reality that we have always been embraced by His love.

The New Generation is discovering that transformation begins with knowing who they truly are.

John 8:32
“You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

The greatest restoration is not external — it is internal.

Humanity fell when thinking disconnected from God’s nature.

Restoration begins when thinking is brought back into alignment with Christ.

The mind of Christ is not mystical.
It is the restored capacity to perceive, discern, and respond from the reality of God’s Kingdom.

This is why Scripture calls us to be transformed by the renewing of the mind.

Because renewed thinking produces restored identity.

God is not forming religious followers.
He is forming sons who think like Christ, respond like Christ, and express the Father like Christ.

This is the recovery of original intention.

Not escape from earth…
But expression of heaven through restored sons.